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Brigadier General WALTER LONG

Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

Cdg. 56th Inf. Bde.

Date of Death

Died 28 January 1917

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COUIN BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. C. 19.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment late 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Distinguished Service Order, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Order of St. Stanislas 2nd Class, with swords. Son of Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long, P.C., M.P. Secretary of State for the Colonies (afterwards 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall) and of Lady Dorothy Blanche Long (now Viscountess Long of Wraxall) daughter of 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery; husband of Hon. Mrs. Walter Long, O.B.E. (now Hon. Mrs. Ralph Glyn).
  • Personal Inscription "DUTY"
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